Matthew Flinders
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title:
Matthew Flinders
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Captain Matthew Flinders was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to utilise the name Australia to describe the entirety of that continent including Van Diemen's Land, a title he regarded as being "more agreeable to the ear" than previous names such as Terra Australis. Flinders was involved in several voyages of discovery between 1791 and 1803, the most famous
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English navigator and cartographer (1774–1814)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Flinders
date created:
2003-01-13T09:43:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T07:49:40Z
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